Oscar Tshiebwe totaled a career-high-tying 30 points, 18 rebounds, two assists, three blocked shots and a steal. He also had 30 points on Jan. 11 at Vanderbilt.
Oscar Tshiebwe gets his 11th straight double-double plus Boxscore and Other Game Notes
The first Kentucky Wildcats to go 25-0 were no slouches, either
The only other team in Kentucky’s regal history to stand 25-0 in a season was Adolph Rupp’s 1953-54 Wildcats.
All-american Frank Ramsey calls UK the foundation for his life
Frank Ramsey pulled in a single championship title for UK. He beat that by six with the Boston Celtics in the NBA. While Ramsey’s amazing career with the Celtics may seem to overshadow his years at UK to fans outside Kentucky, he said his time in college prepared him for life. Ramsey, who currently lives…
Kentucky seeks revenge for 1952
After winning the NCAA Championship in 1951, the Cats were feeling great about themselves in 1952. Adolph Rupp had the number one team in both AP and UPI. UK was undefeated in the SEC and finished the season at 29-3. They were led by All-Americans Frank Ramsey and Cliff Hagan. Kentucky opened up the NCAA…
A dark night in Kentucky…
College Basketball has several records that probably will never be broken, among them UCLA’s seven consecutive national championships, former Bruin coach John Wooden’s 10 national titles in 12 years and Pete Maravich’s scoring average of 44.2 points a game during his career at Louisiana State. But the safest record of all must be Kentucky’s 129-game home court winning streak,…
More than a century of glorious Kentucky basketball sights and sounds…
When one sport, one school, one supreme program so dominates a state, you can take its measure with sounds alone. Cock an ear to the sound track of more than a century of basketball in the Bluegrass State and you’ll hear: The buzz of the Hyatt lobby in advance of a game at Rupp…
For Kentucky legend Frank Ramsey, tornadoes hit close to home
As one of the stars of Adolph Rupp’s 1951 NCAA championship team and the original “Sixth Man” for Red Auerbach’s dynastic Boston Celtics, Ramsey had a particularly rich treasure trove of memorabilia in his home. An autographed picture of the 1963 NBA …